Michael Prokop

Oh nice, sounds great and I'd definitely welcome to support that. :)

JFTR, vmdb2 was orphaned "recently": https://tracker.debian.org/news/1004074/accepted-vmdb2-0132-2-source-all-into-unstable/ Is there any news from your side regarding buster support, @adrelanos + @Algernon-01?

Hi @GavinPacini oh wow, kudos! :partying_face: I'm currently quite busy and won't have time to review it right now, but on first glance it looks rather reasonable, will try to...

@GavinPacini finally had some time to take a look at it. Overall the PR looks good to me, there are some minor details we could improve, but let's polish this...

More than happy to accept patches/PRs :)

@GavinPacini this sounds good for me! Feel free to also throw PoC/incomplete code into my/our direction if you'd like early feedback/code review!

Ok, we could start by copying the existing packages file to packages.{lenny,squeeze,wheezy} and then adjust for packages.jessie and packages.stretch. Then drop packages file overall and don't install /etc/debootstrap/packages any longer...

systemd is present only in more recent Debian releases, and also isn't necessary/relevant when creating a container based system (where systemd wouldn't even really work). More generic answer: we shouldn't...

The default `/etc/debootstrap/packages` file includes the `locales` package, so it looks like you also provided a custom package list/configuration? If you want to generate locales, you'd need to have the...

> Maybe install the locales package regardless in grml-debootstrap, just like its hard dependent, > even when the locales package is not in the /etc/debootstrap/packages file? I'd tend to agree,...